04 JAN 2012 by ideonexus The U-Shape of Automation
People in semi-skilled jobs have been the ones most automated out of jobs, while highly-technical and more menial jobs have remained.
Folksonomies: employment,automation
04 JAN 2012 by ideonexus Shifting From Labor to Capital Reduces Demands
Because the workers automated out of jobs can't buy things.
Folksonomies: employment,automation
04 JAN 2012 by ideonexus The Population Must Increase Education to Stay Ahead of Technology
As people are automated out of jobs, society must increase their educations in order to keep them on top of the machines.
Folksonomies: education,technology,employment,automation
04 JAN 2012 by ideonexus The Decline of the Horse
How cars replacing horses reduces their populations.
Folksonomies: employment,automation,horses
04 JAN 2012 by ideonexus Keynes Predicts Unemployment from Automation
He predicts technological progress will outrun the pace for which we can find new uses for labor in 1930.
Folksonomies: employment,automation
04 JAN 2012 by ideonexus Computers and Creative Writing
A computer successfully got a paper accepted to a technical conference by stringing technical jargon together, which is similar to a scientist who once got a nonsense post-modernist paper published in a journal, but computers can write sports news stories due to their formulaic nature.
Folksonomies: writing,automation
04 JAN 2012 by ideonexus Online Shopping Replaces Sales People
Everytime you purchase something online, that's something you didn't purchase from a retail clerk.
Folksonomies: employment,automation
04 JAN 2012 by ideonexus Lawyers Replaced by Computers
To conduct discovery. Because humans get bored and only have a 60 percent success rate.
Folksonomies: automation,pattern recognition
04 JAN 2012 by ideonexus How IBM's Watson Pattern-Matches to Answer Trivia
And how it does it so fast.
Folksonomies: automation,pattern recognition
04 JAN 2012 by ideonexus Computers Can't Do Everything
They cannot drive trucks yet, but how long until they can?
Folksonomies: employment,automation